On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:34:05 EDT, Peter Billson writes:
>> cat /proc/meminfo
>> cat /proc/loadavg
>
> The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load
>average and, anyway, needs percent of CPU used. You can not calculate
>CPU usage from load average.
Not to mention the deep dark magic by which loadavg is generated. I
still donīt understand that completely ;-)
And yep, that shouldīve read
cat /proc/stat
instead. (And no, I donīt know what the values in the first line
exactly mean, but as soon as I set up mrtg again, Iīm gonna read up on
the kernel-sources)
> You could use /proc to get CPU usage but it would be rather involved
>to do and why bother when the nice man who wrote top has already done it
>for you. :-)
īcause itīs *fun* ;-)
cheers,
&rw
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